The Ghost King Is a Crybaby!

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My upcoming works, "CEO, Please Go Down the Wrong Path," "My Cheat Is My Mortal Enemy Ex-Husband," and "What Kind of Trouble Could a GM Possibly Cause?" Please add them to your favorites! The blurbs are at the very bottom. And please follow me as an author too (^з^)!

[Blurb]

Qiu Min is a ghost.

Imprisoned beneath a well filled with floating bones, he finally manages to escape, only to be hunted by a young man.

Fortunately, the young man lets him go and even helps him investigate the cause of his death.

The young man is named Wen Zhao. On the surface, he runs a bookstore. In secret, he tells fortunes, draws talismans, reads feng shui, wards off evil, and catches ghosts.

He is a recognized prodigy in the world of occult arts, skilled in every aspect of the Five Elements and the Eight Trigrams.

From then on, Qiu Min stays by Wen Zhao's side.

Wen Zhao always carries a cloth bag covered in elaborate designs. Qiu Min suspects it holds a secret.

When he finds a chance to peek inside, he discovers that it contains... an egg.

Qiu Min: ???

What a strange quirk. The shopkeeper keeps an egg as a pet!

Bloody murders keep happening, and investigations repeatedly hit dead ends.

First there are zombies and blood demons, then peach blossom spirits and nine-tailed cats, and even a village that has guarded tombs for a hundred years.

At a moment of crisis, Qiu Min smashes the egg, and then he and the egg suddenly merge into one. He becomes a man with crimson eyes and a fearsome aura of evil...

All the monsters tremble in terror and kneel to beg for mercy.

Qiu Min himself: ???

Wen Zhao: ...

Later, Qiu Min finally learns that the egg was originally his magical body, and that he is actually the Ghost King who commands fear throughout the Three Realms.

Qiu Min: ...

I! Am! Actually! So! Terrifying!

P.S. The story of a man, a ghost, and an egg joining forces to fight monsters!

[Mini-scene 1]

Watching the egg frolic in Wen Zhao's arms, Qiu Min sheds envious tears. "Shopkeeper, don't you think ghosts are pretty cute too?"

Wen Zhao, utterly expressionless: ...

The egg pouts. "Wifey doesn't like ghosts. Wifey likes the egg. Wifey said limited-edition figurines are really expensive."

Qiu Min: "Waaah!"

I'm jealous of myself!

P.S. After the egg and the love interest merge and then separate, the egg becomes a tiny person just a few centimeters tall, and usually appears as an adorable pet.

[Mini-scene 2]

Many years later, the Ghost King Qiu Min wades alone through a sea of blood and suddenly turns to look behind him.

Wen Zhao emerges from the mist. His clothes are tattered and he is covered in blood, yet he walks toward Qiu Min without hesitation. His gaze is serious and intent. "Don't be afraid. As long as I'm here, and the bookstore is still here, you'll never be a lonely, wandering ghost."

He's come to take him home!

So he never gave up on him!

Tsundere and aloof, with a fragile air / handsome spellcaster bookstore owner, the recipient * reborn / timid, cries easily / Ghost King, the pursuer

1. I'm terrible at writing blurbs, so please bear with me.

2. The story is mainly told from the pursuer's perspective.

3. Updates around nine every evening.

4. No little flower means the update is under 3,000 characters.

5. The setting is fictional, with original worldbuilding.

6. Happy ending.

[Upcoming Novel 1]

"CEO, Please Go Down the Wrong Path"

A new young publicist has joined the hottest club in Shangdu.

A slim waist, long legs, and a pair of eyes so beautiful they seem unreal.

The only problem is that he's got a fiery temper and flies off the handle at the slightest provocation.

The rich young men he's beaten up say, with great enthusiasm, "He's even more gorgeous when he's fighting. We love it!"

A rich second-generation hanger-on asks with a deferential smile, "Boss, what do you think?"

Shang Yu lowers his eyes and sees Bian Shu swearing as he pins a spoiled rich kid to the ground and rubs his face in it.

Shang Yu smiles. "Interesting."

Bian Shu suddenly turns around, spots Shang Yu, grabs an enormous bottle of liquor, and walks straight toward him. "Scumbag, how are we settling our score?"

Shang Yu: "..."

Kind of cute.

The rich second-generation spectators: Scumbag?! What's going on between these two?

For the sake of revenge, Bian Shu goes from being too proud to lower himself to throwing himself into it completely, from playing a flirtatious beauty in an online game to cosplay in the bedroom.

This proud, cold, straight guy plays a game character who's a little girl in white stockings, and eventually even gets the hang of wearing cat ears and a tail in real life.

The famously reserved and distant CEO is so smitten that he'd give him the stars if he asked, and never settle for the moon.

At this point, Bian Shu's revenge is halfway complete.

One day, Bian Shu is pulling on lace-trimmed thigh-high stockings, his face cold as he grits his teeth. "I should make that scumbag suffer for love. If you're going to kill someone, you have to destroy his heart too."

Outside the door, Shang Yu: "..."

What do I do? He's even cuter now. I want him in bed.

A spoiled rich-kid hanger-on: Boss, have you got any big projects you're happy with lately? (starry-eyed)

Shang Yu: I lured the straight-guy "publicist" into bending over backward, then won the beauty for myself. I'm very satisfied.

The rich second-generation spectators: ???

[Mini-scene]

The first time Bian Shu logs into "Spring Boudoir Memoir," he hears Shang Yu's voice in the private chat channel:

"Is this a dating game?"

"I'm honored you invited me to take part in such a personal game."

"I think I understand what you mean by wanting to do this together..."

Bian Shu: "..."

Can someone tell him how he ended up in this kind of game when he only wanted to compete with Shang Yu once?

Set on revenge / super cool and confident / tough young recipient X terminally lovesick / terminal gentleman-complex / protective big-shot pursuer

[Upcoming Novel 2]

"What Kind of Trouble Could a GM Possibly Cause?"

The highly anticipated full-dive game "Shanhai Realm" is about to begin its spectacular closed beta.

Zhou Yi is the game's designer. In a great mood after using his sharp tongue to get out of a blind date, he agrees to help out as a game GM during the beta.

The competition is fierce, and players are scrambling for prizes, but none of that has anything to do with him. He just wants to take it easy while using his GM privileges.

Who could have guessed... On the very first day, players mistake his character, Xiao Jiujiu, for a map boss.

Zhou Yi: "You weaklings, I'm a GM."

"What kind of GM reveals his identity? Who do you think you're fooling?"

"Damn, did he just call us weaklings?"

"Get him! Let's see what good stuff he drops!"

Helpless, Zhou Yi maxes out his health, lies on the ground, and idly checks the blind date his mother just sent him on his phone while they beat him up.

At first, life as a GM is pretty relaxing, but the players seem to have taken his taunts to heart. Every day they're furious and determined to kill him.

One day, a masked assassin dressed in black steps in front of him and boldly declares, "This fox spirit is under my protection."

Zhou Yi: Who's this guy? How big is his ego, protecting a GM?

After that, the brazen assassin in black gets knocked down again and again. In the end, Zhou Yi can't bear to watch anymore. He pats the assassin on the shoulder. "You protected me well. Don't do it again."

The game becomes a huge hit, and the company invites its celebrity spokesperson to visit. Under everyone's watchful eyes, the spokesperson, with an extraordinarily handsome face, walks up to Zhou Yi and smiles brightly. "I'm here to find my darling wife..."

The whole room falls silent. Zhou Yi's mouth twitches. The famous spokesperson is the very blind date he turned down before. Even worse, his hopeless online-gaming sweetheart calls him the same thing...

*

Thanks to an advertising deal, celebrity Lan Yue gets access to the closed beta of "Shanhai Realm." From then on, there's a new black-clad assassin in the game.

That blind date named Zhou Yi had once brazenly humiliated him. Lan Yue wants to see what gives this fox spirit the right to be so proud.

But when he learns that Zhou Yi's mother is once again arranging blind dates for him, he finally can't sit still.

Irresistibly charming, tsundere pursuer X sharp-tongued, hardship-averse, lazy recipient

1. Some game companies set their GMs, meaning game masters, up as NPCs. Of course, NPCs in a full-dive game can run, jump, and form parties too!

2. The setting is fictional, with original worldbuilding.

3. Happy ending.

Theme: Even if you are born in the mire, hold fast to your clear convictions and principles. Only by remaining steadfast can you earn the respect of others.